There is also an article on Italian musical terms used in English. The music of Italy is somewhat of a microcosm of Western music in general. ... // Art Music Art music is a somewhat broader term than classical music and may be defined for the purposes of this article as establishment music (either religious or secular) that is composed for pubic or private performance. ... Italian opera can be divided into three periods, the Baroque, the Romantic and the modern. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Italy is a European country, and has had a long relationship with rock and roll, a style of music which spread to the country by the early 1960s from the United States. ... There was a dynamic Italian hardcore punk scene in the 1980s . ... Italian hip hop started in the early 1990s. ... Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. ... Italian jazz. ... Time line for Music of Italy Dates for musical periods such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, etc. ... Italian music awards There are a great number of music competitions that offer prizes for performance and composition in both classical and popular music. ... FIMI Federazione dellindustria musicale italiana (Federation of the Italian music industry) is an umbella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italian. ... Italian music festivals Below is a list of major music festivals in Italy with links to the appropriate external websites: Arena di Verona Outdoor opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. ... Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia The Umbria Jazz Festival is one of the most important venues for Jazz in Europe and has been held annually since 1973, usually in July, in the city of Perugia, Italy. ... The Festival della canzone italiana (in Italian: Festival of the Italian song) is a popular Italian song contest running since 1951 and held annually in the city of Sanremo. ... The annual Festival of Ravello is a popular music venue in Italy. ... Cathedral of Santa Maria dellAssunta in Spoleto The Festival dei due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) is an annual summer festival in the city of Spoleto, Italy. ... Music media in Italy There is an abundance of print, on-line and broadcast media in Italy that cover all kinds of music. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognzed either by a nations government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ... Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians) is the Italian national anthem. ... The development of music in the Aosta Valley region of Italy, similar to nearby Piedmont, has much to do with the presence of medieval monasteries that preserved important musical manuscripts from the Middle Ages and also served as conduits of information and influence from areas to the north. ... At first glance, the Music of Abruzzo seems less defined than other regional music in Italy. ... The music of Basilicata is sparse at the moment. ... The Music of Calabria Like other regions in southern Italy, Calabria for many centuries was an integral part of the kingdom of Naples, and, as with other regions, the musical life tended to be overshadowed by the important activities in the capital city to the north--the conservatories there, the... Music of Campania The capital city of the Campania region of Italy is Naples; there is a separate article dealing with the Music of Naples. ... The Music of Emilia-Romagna has the reputation of being one of the richest in Europe; there are six music conservatories alone in the region, and the sheer number of other musical venues and activities is astounding. ... While Florence, itself, needs no introduction as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, the music of Florence may, in fact, need such an introduction. ... The musical fortunes of Friuli-Venezia Giulia are closely tied to its political fortunes over the course of centuries, all having to do with proximity to the great maritime Republic of Venice as well as to the Austro-Hungarian empire and the vicissitudes of being a heavily contested area during... (For music outside of the city and province of Genoa in the Liguria region of Italy, see Music of Liguria. ... (Latium (Lazio) is a region in central Italy that includes the city and province of Rome. ... The Music of Liguria flourished in the 19th century for a number of reasons. ... (This article is about the Music of Lombardy outside of the city and province of Milan. ... (This article is about music in and of the city and province of Milan. ... While it is one of the smalles regions of Italy, the Music of Molise is active. ... Ciao, Raggazi Music of Naples is very cool ... The Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) has played an important role in the development of music, in general, in Italy, due to the presence of medieval monasteries in that area, institutions that were great preservers of mansucripts in the Middle Ages as well as being geographically well located to connect to... The Music of Puglia has had some glorious history as well as some very hard times. ... The Music of Rome is intensely active. ... Probably the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy, Sardinia is an islated island known for the tenores polyphonic chant, sacred songs called gozos and launeddas, a type of bagpipes. ... Sicily is home to a great variety of Christian music, including a cappella devotional songs from Montedoro and many brass bands like Banda Ionica, who play songs from a diverse repertoire. ... The Music of Trentino-South Tyrol reflects the multilingual and multiethnic make-up of the region. ... (This article is about the Music of Tuscany outside of the city and province of Florence. ... If there were a way to measure music per capita the Music of Umbria would rank very high. ... The music of Veneto has much to offer. ... (This article is about music in and of the city of Venice. ... Below is a list of major Italian opera houses with appropriate external links to their websites: Bologna Teatro Comunale Catania Teatro Bellini Florence Teatro la Pergola Genova Teatro Carlo Felice Florence La Scala Naples Teatro San Carlo Parma Teatro Regio di Parma Palermo Teatro Massimo Rome Teatro dellOpera Torino... Below is an alphabetical list, by city, of those music conservatories in Italy that maintain webpages. ... For a general, non-language specific list of terms, see Musical terminology A great many musical terms are in Italian. ...

Italian music terminology is an important part of the music of Italy. Some Italian music terms are derived from the common Italian language. Others are derived from Spanish, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Sardinian or other regional languages of Italy. The music of Italy is somewhat of a microcosm of Western music in general. ... Italian ( , or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, primarily in Italy. ... Neapolitan (autonym: nnapulitano; Italian: napoletano) is a Romance language spoken in the city and region of Naples, Campania (Neapolitan: Nàpule, Italian: Napoli), as well as throughout most of southern Italy including the Gaeta and Sora districts of southern Lazio, the southern part of Ascoli province in Marche, most of... Sicilian (, Italian: ) is the Romance language spoken in Sicily and southern Italy. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

• accordo: A multi-part singing technique, also canto ad accordo ^[1]
• addio padre: A post-war political song ^[2]
• ajri: A form of Albanian-Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• alessandrina: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia ^[3]
• alta danza: Early Spanish name for the saltarello ^[4]
• argismo: A Sicilian term for the tarantella healing ritual, from argia, spider^[5]
• ariosa: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• arpicelli: The Viggiano harp
• asprese: A form of multi-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• balùn: A folk dance ^[3]
• ballarella: A variant name for the saltarello ^[5]
• bandautore: A cantautore who composes music for a band ^[6]
• banda comunale: A local, civic band ^[5]
• a bandieri bella: A form of Calabrian secular multi-part song ^[1]
• ballo di baraben: A ritual dance ^[3]
• baride: Sicilian brass bands ^[7]
• bas de tach: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• basci: The bass voice in a trallalero ensemble ^[8]
• basso: A kind of song in Dignano ^[3]
• bassu: The bass voice of the Sardinian tenores ^[7]
• bei: A kind of Tuscan polyphony, especially known near Monte Amiata, also bei-bei ^[1]
• bello ideale: An aesthetic idea which embraced a predominant melody and other elements, beautiful ideal ^[3]
• bena: A Sardinian clarinet ^[9]
• bitinada: A singing style for three men, most common in Rovigno in Istria ^[3]
• boare: work songs ^[3]
• canti alla boara: A kind of lyric song associated with the cantaustorie ^[2]
• boghe: The lead vocalist of a Sardinian tenores ensemble ^[7]
• boghe ballu: In Sardinian, harmony, or a danceable singing rhythm, literally we dance with our voice ^[10]
• buiasche: A kind of polyphonic song from the village of Bogli ^[7]
• bunkula: A cello ^[3]
• butunada: A song form peculiar to Rovigno ^[3]
• camminareccia: A piece of wedding music in the sonata per la sposa of Alta Sabina ^[3]
• cannacione: A historical, rural form of lute ^[5]
• cantastorie: Itinerant musicians, now most commonly found in Sicily ^[5][3]
• cantautori: Popular, modern singer-songwriters ^[6]
• canzone a ballo: A dance song ^[5]
• canzone Italiana: Italian song ^[5]
• canzone Napoletana: A kind of popular song from Naples, Neapolitan song ^[7]
• canzune: A Sicilian term for lyric songs ^[5]
• carnevale: The Italian Carnival ^[2]
• carnevale de Bagolino: A very famous Carnival, in the town of Bagolino, Brescia ^[5]
• canti a catoccu: A kind of lyric song ^[5]
• canti carnascialeschi: Carnival songs ^[5]
• cembalo: A hammered dulcimer ^[5]
• cepranese: A form of multi-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• chitarra: A guitar, also a voice in trallalero ensembles that imitates the guitar ^[8]
• chitarra battente: A four- or five-steel stringed guitar, beating guitar ^[5]
• chiterra: A Sardinian guitar ^[10]
• ciaramella: A single-reed pipe, or oboe, also a bagpipe in Alta Sabina ^[5][11]
• cioparedda: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• citira: A violin ^[3]
• concertini: Small, violin-based ensembles most common in Emilia, Bagolino and Resia ^[3]
• condanna della vecchiaccia: An Umbrian ceremony that heralds the return of spring, the condemnation of the crone ^[5]
• contra: The counter-vocalist of the Sardinian tenores ^[7]
• controbasso: The baritone vocalist of the trallalero tradition ^[8]
• contrubassu: Alternate term for controbasso, the baritone vocalist of the trallalero tradition ^[8]
• canto a coppia': A kind of central Italian two-part singing similar to canti a vatoccu ^[3]
• cozzupara: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• crellareccia: A wedding dance in the sonata per la sposa of Alta Sabina ^[3]
• cuntrètu: A falsetto voice ^[3]
• bal drabces: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• danza dei coltelli: The dance of the knives, a knife dance derived from the tarantella ^[9]
• canto a dispetto: A Tuscan term, song of the despised, equivalent to canto a vatoccu ^[5]
• du' bottë: Abruzzese double base diatonic accordion ^[12]
• endecasillabo: A central Italian song form with phrases of eleven syllables ^[7]
• canti alla falciatora: scything songs ^[3]
• firlinfeu: A pan flute ^[5]
• fisarmonica: A chromatic piano accordion ^[11]
• fogli volanti: Printed popular songs called in English broadsides, most commonly used for Italian ballads ^[5]
• forlana: Venetian term for the furlana ^[13]
• friscalettu: A Sicilian folk flute ^[14]
• friulana: Venetian term for the furlana ^[13]
• furlana: A folk dance, from Campieli, favored in Venice ^[13]
• furlane: Venetian term for the furlana ^[13]
• frullana: Venetian term for the furlana ^[13]
• gagliarda: Italian term for the galliarde ^[15]
• gagliarde: Italian term for the galliarde ^[15]
• ghironda: A hurdy-gurdy most common in Emilia, Lombardy and Piedmont ^[5]
• giga: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia ^[3]
• giustiniane: A kind of popular historic song, named after Leonardo Giustiniani ^[3]
• ballo dei Gobbi: A carnevale dance, dance of the hunchbacks ^[2]
• laude: Strophic songs, often in Latin ^{[3] [5]}
• launeddas: A Sardinian clarinet, played using circular breathing ^{[3] [5][7]}
• lira: A three-stringed bowed fiddle, played on the knee, most common in Calabria ^[5]
• canti lirici: Italian lyric songs, or canto lirico-monostrifici ^[1]
• ballo liscio: A ballroom dance ^[2]
• canti alla longa: A kind of lyric song ^[5]
• maggi a serenata: A maggio love song ^[5]
• maggio: A May celebration ^[5]
• maggio della anime purganti: A maggio song for the souls in Purgatory ^[2]
• maggio delle ragazze: A maggio song for young girls ^[2]
• maggio drammatico: A music and drama celebration held during maggio ^{[3] [5]}
• maitinade: A kind of dance song, most common in Trento; it is composed of six-line stanzas of eleven syllables per line ^[5]
• mamutones: Masked performers in processions in Mamoiada in Sicily ^[3]
• mandola: A string instrument similar to both the guitar and mandolin ^[14]
• mandolino: An Italian lute with eight or twelve strings ^[14]
• mantignada: A song form peculiar to Sissano ^[3]
• ballo di Mantova: A folk skipping dance ^[3]
• mesa boghe: The middle voice of the Sardinian tenores^[7]
• metitora: A form of two-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• canti alla mietitora: Harvesting songs ^[3]
• mondine: A kind of rural, woman's folk song ^[2]
• monferrina: A 6/8 dance historically associated with Monferrato and the valleys of Fassa and Rendena ^{[16] [3]}
• canto alla monmarella: work songs ^[3]
• montasolina: A form of multi-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• muleta: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• müsa: A bagpipe ^[3]
• ninna nanna: A folk lullaby ^[2]
• a oli oledda: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• orazioni: A kind of Sicilian narrative folk song ^[3]
• orbi: A kind of Sicilian narrative folk song ^[3]
• organetto: A diatonic button accordion which accompanies the saltarello, and has largely replaced the bagpipe ^{[7] [5]}
• orologio della passione: An alternate term, used in musical collections, for the canto della passione ^[5]
• ottava rima: An eight line song, most common in Central Italy, especially Lazio, Tuscany and Abruzzo ^{[3] [5][7]}
• pajarella: A form of Lazio multi-part song ^[1]
• pas in amur: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• canto della passione: A central Italian begging song, performed before Easter, also known as orologio della passione (clock of the passion) ^[5]
• passo brabante: An alternate term for the saltarello ^[4]
• passu'e trese: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• alla pennese: A kind of two-part singing from Lazio, similar to canti a vatoccu ^[1]
• canto a pennese: A work song ^[3]
• canti a pera: A kind of lyric song from Gallesano ^{[5] [3]}
• perigurdino: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia ^[3]
• piagnereccia: A piece of wedding music in the sonata per la sposa of Alta Sabina ^[3]
• piana: A skipping dance from the area around Pavia ^[3]
• piffaro, piffero: A double-reed shawm ^[14]
• piva: A kind of Lombard bagpipe ^{[3] [5]}
• pizzica tarantata: An old form of the tarantella ^[9]
• raganelle: A cog rattle ^[5]
• recchia: A kind of central Italian two-part singing similar to canti a vatoccu ^[3]
• a recchione: A form of multi-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• a reuta: A form of Lazio multi-part song ^[1]
• ribeba: An alternate term, rebab, for the scacciapensieri ^[5]
• rezianka zagatina: A folk dance ^[3]
• rispetti: A kind of lyric song ^[5]
• roncastalda: A folk skipping dance ^[3]
• rose e fiori: A Carnival dance ^[3]
• a rosabella: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• ruggero: A folk skipping dance ^[3]
• russiano: A folk dance, said to originate in Russi ^[2]
• sa seria: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• saltarella: A variant name for the saltarello ^[5]
• saltarelle: A variant name for the saltarello^[4]
• saltarello: A widespread, leaping folk dance, originally in 3/4 time, and later in 3/8 and 6/8, derived from a court dance that evolved from the galliarde and was originally known in Spain as the alta danza, from saltare, to leap ^[4]
• savatarelle: A variant name for the saltarello ^[5]
• scacciamarzo: A spring holiday ^[5]
• scacciapensieri: A mouth harp found in the Alpine north and Sicily, care-chaser ^[5]
• sega la vecchia: An old mid-Lent ceremony, the sawing of the witch ^[5]
• serenata: A love song ^[3]
• simbalo: A tambourine ^[3]
• solitu: A Sardinian traditional shepherd's flute ^[10]
• sonata per la sposa: A musical ritual from Alta Sabina ^[3]
• sonetto: A lyrical form consisting of four lines of seven syllables ^[3]
• sos gocios: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• sos mutos: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• sposina: A skipping dance for brides from the area around Pavia ^[3]
• canti alla stesa: A kind of lyric song ^[5]
• stornelli: A kind of solo lyric song, from the Provençal estorn, to challenge ^[5]
• stornello: A Sicilian folk song ^[11]
• storia: A kind of southern, long song ^[3]
• strambotti: A kind of lyric song, from the Provençal estribar, to lash ^[5]
• stranotti: A kind of lyric song ^[5]
• strina: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• stuzzichetto: A variant name for the saltarello ^[5]
• su ballu: Popular Sardinian dances^[7]
• surdulina: A bagpipe from Basilicata ^[3]
• ta matianowa: A folk dance ^[3]
• ta palacowa: A folk dance ^[3]
• ta panawa: A folk dance ^[3]
• tamburello: A small frame drum, used to accompany the tarantella, also a tambourine ^[5][7]
• tamburini: A tambourine ^[5]
• tammora: A large frame drum ^[7]
• tammorriata, tammuriata: A Campanian couple dance, accompanied by lyric songs called strambotti and tammorra tambourines ^[17]
• tamura: A large frame drum ^[7]
• tarantate: Women who had been supposedly poisoned by the tarantula bite, and intended to cure themselves through the tarantella ritual ^[5]
• tarantel: An alternate term for the tarantella ^[18]
• tarantella: A couple dance in 6/8 time, intended to cure the supposedly poisonous bite of the tarantula ^[18]
• tarantismo: An Apulian term for the tarantella healing ritual ^[7]
• tarantolati: The tarantella ritual as it is practiced in Puglia ^[7][9]
• tarentella: An alternate term for the tarantella ^[18]
• tarentule: An alternate term for the tarantella ^[18]
• tenores: Sardinian polyphonic chant^[7]
• testamenti: A kind of Carnival song ^[5]
• tiir: A kind of polyphonic song from Premana in Lombardy ^[5]
• ballo tondo: An alternate term for ballu tundu ^[10]
• torototela: A bowed, one-string fiddle, most common in northeast Italy ^[5]
• ballu torrau: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• trallalero: A kind of Genoese polyphony ^{[5] [3][7]}
• tratto marzo: A spring holiday ^[5]
• trescone: A folk dance, one of Italy's oldest ^[2]
• triangulu: A Sardinian triangle ^[10]
• triccheballacche: A Neapolitan percussion instrument, built with mallets attached to a wooden frame, wooden clapper ^{[5] [3] [11]}
• tromba degli zingari: An alternate term, trumpet of the Gypsies, for the scacciapensieri ^[5]
• trunfa: A Sardinian jew's harp, or mouth harp, trump, similar to the scacciapensieri ^[10]
• tumborro: A Sardinian tambourine ^[10]
• ballu tundu: The launeddas dance ^[10]
• ballu tzopu: A Sardinian folk dance ^[10]
• urlatori: A shouter, an expressive vocalist ^[5]
• canti a vatoccu: A kind of polyphonic lyric song, usually for two to three women, songs in the manner of a bell clapper, most common in Umbria, and the Apennines of Abruzza and the Marche ^[5][3]
• la vecchia: A carnevale ritual from Pontelangiorno ^[2]
• veglie: A central Italian musical gathering ^[3]
• ballo della Veneziana: A 2/2 dance of Venetian origin ^[2]
• verolana: A form of multi-part song from Lazio ^[1]
• villanella: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• villotte: A kind of lyric song with verses of 8 or 11 syllables ^{[5] [3]}
• a voca regolare: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• a voca diritta: A form of Calabrian multi-part song ^[1]
• vjersh: A form of Albanian multi-part song found in Calabria and Basilicata ^{[1] [7]}
• zampogna: A southern Italian bagpipe, most commonly with two drones and two conical chanters ^[14]
• zampogna a paro: A single-reed and two- or three drone zampogna, found in Calabria and Sicily ^[3]
• zampogna zoppa: A mostly double-reed and variably droned zampogna, found in central Italy ^[3]

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Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w} Antonello Ricci. Multivocal music in Central and Southern Italy. Detailed Maps on the Spreading of Multipart Singing in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Italian Treasury - Alan Lomax Collection. Musical Traditions Internet Magazine. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm} New Grove Encyclopedia of Music, pp 637 - 680
4. ^ ^a b c d Saltarello. StreetSwing's Dance History Archives. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg} Keller, Marcello Sorce, Roberto Catalano and Giuseppina Colicci, "Italy" in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, pp 604 - 625
6. ^ ^a b Monti, Giangilberto; Veronica Di Pietro. Dizionario dei cantautori. Retrieved on July 15.
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} Surian, Allessio, "Tenores and Tarantellas", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pp 189 - 201
8. ^ ^a b c d (Italian) A LAVAGNA CANTI E RIME DAL TRALLALERO AL SUD ITALIA. Prono Provincia Notizie. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
9. ^ ^a b c d Workshops. Musicantica. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Il coro a tenores CULTURA POPOLARE di Neoneli. Isolasarda. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
11. ^ ^a b c d Levy, "Italian Music" in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, pp 860-864
12. ^ Accordion History in Italy. Accordions.com. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
13. ^ ^{a b c d e} Furlana. StreetSwing's Dance History Archives. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
14. ^ ^{a b c d e} Glossary of Folk Musical Instruments & Styles from Around the World. Hobgoblin Info Source. Retrieved on April 20, 2006.
15. ^ ^a b Galliarde. Street Swing's Dance History Archives. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
16. ^ Italian Treasury - Alan Lomax Collection. Musical Traditions Internet Magazine. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
17. ^ International Dance Glossary. World Music Central. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.
18. ^ ^a b c d La Tarantella. StreetSwing's Dance History Archives. Retrieved on July 15, 2006.